John Ford's last western film, Cheyenne Autumn was allegedly produced to compensate for the hundreds of Native Americans who had bitten the dust in Ford's earlier films (that was the director's story, ...

Directed by John Ford and featuring an insanely star-studded cast, "Cheyenne Autumn" premiered on Oct. 3, 1964. It tells the story of the Cheyenne tribe's journey to its ancestral home. The last ...

September 1878: The last surviving Cheyenne, after their surrender, decide to escape back to their homeland, 1,800 miles away. However, the whites, under Captain Archer's command, are determined to ...

Structured as a complementary social and historical companion piece to John Ford's final western Cheyenne Autumn (1964), this documentary short intersperses clips from the big-screen epic with ...